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別の表記

• capperbar, capabarre, capperbar, cap a bar, cape bar^[2]

名詞

cappabar (複数形 not attested)

1. (nautical, obsolete) a misappropriation of government property; embezzlement or fraud carried out in the management of a ship.
   • Burton, Alfred (1818) The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, London: Methuen and Co., page 209

     If e'er the Fortune of the war
     Gave him a Prize, he'd cap a bar
     Like blazes--but stand clear! that elf
     Who dared to steal besides himself.

   • Patrick O'Brian, *The Mauritius Command.*

     disposing of His Majesty's property was an immemorial practice among His Majesty's servants [...] and in the Navy it went by the name of cappabar. —

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